In Defense of Legal Positivism

Law without Trimmings

Matthew H. Kramer

In Defense of Legal Positivism

Law without Trimmings

Matthew H. Kramer

Description

This book is an uncompromising defense of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets. The book concludes with a detailed discussion of the obligation to obey the law--a discussion that highlights the strengths of legal positivism in the domain of political philosophy as much as in the domain of jurisprudence.

In Defense of Legal Positivism

Law without Trimmings

Matthew H. Kramer

Table of Contents

Preface1. IntroductionPART I: POSITIVISM DEFENDED 2. Justice as Constancy3. Scrupulousness Without Scruples: A Critique of Lon Fuller and His Defenders4. Requirements, Reasons, and Raz: Legal Positivism and Legal Duties5. The Law in Action: A Study in Good and Evil6. Also Among the Prophets: Some Rejoinders to Ronald Dworkin's Attacks on Legal PositivismPART II: POSITIVISM EXTENDED 7. Disclaimers and Reassertions8. Elements of a Conceptual Framework9. Law and Order: Some ImplicationsIndex

In Defense of Legal Positivism

Law without Trimmings

Matthew H. Kramer

Author Information

Matthew Kramer is University Lecturer in Jurisprudence, Cambridge University and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Churchill College, Cambridge